Gruff

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  • adjective. Brusque or stern in manner or appearance.
  • adjective. Hoarse; harsh.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Crude or impure saltpeter, as imported from India.
  • noun. In mining, a pit or shaft.
  • Rough or stern in manner, voice, or countenance; surly; severe; harsh.
  • noun. In pharmacy, the coarse residue which will not pass through the sieve in pulverization.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. having a rough, surly, or harsh nature.
  • adjective. hoarse voiced.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. brusque and surly and forbidding
  • adjective. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
    • Equivalent
    cacophonic  cacophonous  ill-natured  
    Form
    gruffly  gruffness  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Slough  bluff  bruff  buff  cuff  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abrupt  brusque  curt  emphatic  guttural  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abrupt  acerb  acid  acrimonious  aggressive  
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